The marsh is an ancient nation that had lived in the Northeast in the pre-Qin period. Due to many reasons such as the living area, they were poorer than the Turks.

According to the history of the Tang Dynasty, there were about 100,000 households of the Marine tribe during the Zhenguan period. One household of the fishing and hunting tribe was equal to three households of the farming tribe. How many people were there in one household of the farming tribe?

In ancient times, household registration was mainly young and strong men. One household might only register two to three people, but in fact it was not the case, because children and women were not registered.

Each Han family has about 4-10 people, which is the number of household registration for farming ethnic groups, while the number of household registration for fishing and hunting ethnic groups has tripled.

In other words, there are about 12-30 people in a fishing and hunting family.

The number of households in the Marinha tribe is more than 100,000, so the population is at least 2 million. Li Yun originally thought that this calculation was already very accurate, but after he arrived at the Dada tribe, he found that history was really inaccurate.

There is a small tribe with twenty-seven adult men, more than two hundred women and more than one hundred and seventy children.

This number of people doesn't sound like a lot in later generations, and it's not even as good as a small village, but it's different in ancient times because these people are not included in the statistical scope at all.

The so-called 100,000 households in historical books do not count small tribes like Dada Marine. After asking, Li Yun learned that such tribes were hundreds of thousands in the mountains and forests.

Even if there are only a few hundred people in each tribe, it is a huge number.

History made a joke for future generations and also made Li Yun fall into a misunderstanding of understanding.

Later generations always felt that ancient times were poor, so the population must be particularly thin. Once someone disagreed with this view, some experts would slap historic books in the face, but the experts themselves ignored a problem. The ancient household registration statistics were not accurate at all.

It may be all light, it's just a joke.

The Marine tribe has a population of at least 10 million in the entire Northeast China, but only more than 100,000 households included in the statistics, and there is only one reason. There are only seven Marine tribes in this era.

When the official counted, he only counted the seven large tribes.

As for the other thousands of scattered tribes, they were ignored as if they did not exist.

These seven tribes are Sumo tribe, Bodu tribe, Anchegu tribe, Funi tribe, Nosshi tribe, Heishui tribe, and Baishan tribe.

Among them, the Black Water Tribe is the most powerful, and it is also the tribe that Li Yun had a sworn brother.

The Black Water Martree is already the most powerful tribe, but the two people are still poor wearing pairs of pants. Not to mention a small tribe like Dada Martree. Li Yun really didn't expect to be so poor.

What a settlement this is? It’s so poor that it’s so scary.

In Li Yun's vision, since it was a tribe at least like a village, he found that all the guesses were so beautiful. He really looked at the wealth of the people of the Marx.

The Turks even had a tent to shelter the wind and rain. The militars built houses with branches. After asking, they found out the reason. They often had to move in the mountains and forests. Whenever wild animals within a hundred miles were hunted, they had to move their clans to a new place to live.

It is precisely because of the time it takes to be relocated that logging and building a house is ridiculous. Even if it is surrounded by primitive ancient trees, the people of the Marine are not willing to waste their energy to build fixed houses.

The broken living is just one aspect, and the poor eating is sad.

When Li Yun and Yueyaer arrived at the tribe, it was not a meal time at all, but the five iron pots in the tribe were steaming, and the women were chopping firewood and cooking things.

The group of people sat around the pot, holding a dark bowl with no material. After asking, I realized that the whole tribe was served all day long. Because there were only five iron pots to cook, it could only satisfy dozens of people at a time, so they had to cook all day and take turns to eat.

Li Yun was curious about what the people of the Marx were eating, so he asked Yueya to take it to the side of the pot and took a look. Before the person arrived, he wanted to vomit. The pot was obviously cooked with meat, but there was no smell of meat.

Not only did he have no meat smell, but he had a fishy smell. Li Yun tried hard to restrain his urge to cover his nose for a long time. He didn't want to be rude, or he didn't want these people to hurt their self-esteem.

However, his worries were in vain. The group of people didn't think they were eating badly.

For example, when Yueyaer was drooling, she suddenly held Li Yun's arm with her hands and said proudly: "I am a huntress in the tribe and a person who has contributed, so I am qualified to entertain guests. I can share a bowl of meat later."

As he said that, he stopped and said proudly: "When I help you have a baby, I will try harder to hunt so that my children can eat full every day and lick salt with big mouthfuls."

Licking salt with big mouthfuls?

Li Yun has heard her say this word for the second time.

Li Yun subconsciously glanced around and slowly discovered what it means to lick salt.

But seeing that one of the five iron pots had been cooked, the children of the steak served rice one by one with black bowls. They did not pick up the food, but simply grabbed it with their hands. They also lined up to lick a black cloth bag in turn.

The bag should be filled with salt. I don’t know if I can lick the salty taste through the bag. However, every child who licked it was very satisfied and ate with a black bowl.

Yueyaer suddenly licked the corner of her mouth and said softly: "This time I hunted two robes, so I am qualified to lick salt when eating, but I want to give you the qualifications, because you are going to marry my man soon. Remember, I can only lick two robes, I only hunted two robes..."

The contribution of two robes licking two bites of salt?

Li Yun was stunned again, suddenly pointed at the children and said curiously: "I see each of them licked it. Could it be that these children also hunted prey?"

He didn't believe this after saying it himself, because the children were too young.

Yueyaer was obviously amused by his question and said, "How old are they? How can they hunt? Look at that slug, he is a little unstable when he stands. Children can't hunt, and they have no contribution..."

“Since there is no hunting contribution, why can you lick salt?”

Li Yun asked again, but in fact he had a vague guess in his mind.

Sure enough, Yueyaer smiled and said, "This is the rule of the Marais. Children can lick salt before the age of eight. Every meal has it."

He stopped and explained, "No matter how thin the salt in the tribe is, children under the age of eight are not allowed to lick salt."

Then his little face suddenly became serious, his hands were placed on his chest and he seemed pious, and he said, "This is the rule of the ancestors, and any man in the harem must abide by it!"

"The rules of your ancestors?" Li Yun repeated.

"Yeah, yeah, it's been passed down for thousands of years, and this rule cannot be broken!"

Yueyaer nodded anxiously and said, "Sometimes, because the salt is too short, we hunters will give up our qualifications to lick salt. If it is still not enough, other tribes will help. Even if it is a mortal enemy tribe that has been missing for generations, they will help them when they see that the enemy tribe lacks salt from eight-year-old children..."

This sounded a little puzzled, but Li Yun couldn't help but sigh.

He stared at the children licking salt, as if he saw the civilization inherited from the slash-and-burn farming. The reason why humans became humans was because they had more conscience than wild animals.

This rule that an eight-year-old child can lick salt for free is clearly an outstanding highlight of human civilization.

Because children are too young and cannot earn food and drink, adults have to give them free of charge, which is indescribable human nature.

...

Yueyaer looked at him staring at the bag of salt in a daze, thinking that Li Yun was jealous and wanted to lick it.

The little girl was very proud and pointed to the cloth bag and said to Li Yun: "Did you see that our salt is sufficient. Not only can the children lick salt, but she also helped a tribe with a dead salt. That tribe has a mortal grudge against us, and we wished to kill all of them, but the salt of their eight-year-old child was broken, so we immediately distributed some salt and sent it to him."

After saying that, he clenched his fists proudly and hummed, "Our Dada tribe is the most powerful. You married the wife of a powerful tribe. We are qualified to help other tribes. I will feel very proud if you marry..."

It’s better not to forget to sell yourself.

The little girl is still thinking about Li Yun’s twenty handfuls of salt.

Unfortunately, Li Yun was not in mind at this moment, and his eyes were staring at the children.

"Add salt, add salt..." He murmured twice, and for some reason he felt a thrust in his heart.

Suddenly he turned his head to look at Yueyaer and asked, "Can you lick it with your mouth through the bag and you can lick it until the salty taste?"

"Yes!"

Yueyaer answered without hesitation, pointing at the children and said, "Look at how happy they are, it is the most comfortable day before the age of eight."

"What about after the age of eight?" Li Yun's eyes flashed.

No doubt that there was it, he replied directly: "After the age of eight, you cannot lick salt for nothing. You must help the tribe collect herbs and determine the number of times you lick salt according to your contribution."

As he said that, he stopped and said, "Some children are too weak to collect herbs, but Crescent is different. When I was a child, I was the most powerful child. I can pick herbs every day and sometimes dig ginseng, so I can lick salt every time I eat, and eventually grow into a strong and powerful hunter."

This girl is so cute and stupid. She can't help but praise herself every time she speaks, or every man is like this. They don't know what modesty means.

To make contributions, to show off, this is their right to live, and they are qualified to show off their achievements.

It has been a while since they arrived in the tribe. The men had already taken their prey to deal with it. Suddenly, they heard a laugh from a branch house. A strong man led a group of miraculous women out.

The man opened his hands from afar, laughed at Li Yun constantly, and spoke whispering whispers in his mouth, and occasionally he even had a tough guy with one or two words.

"Han...man...daughter's...husband..."

I can't even say the word son-in-law. It's obviously a two-knives who failed to learn Chinese. However, the strong man's face was full of pride and pride. All the martyrs in the tribe looked at him enviously.

It is the pride of the entire tribe that his daughter can marry the Han people. In the past two years, a legend has emerged in the entire Marine tribe. It is said that the Han people are particularly wealthy and can lick salt in big mouthfuls while eating.

And his daughter married the most powerful Han people among the Han people.

Yueyaer suddenly became a little nervous, and suddenly hugged Li Yun's elbow hard, begging, "Twenty holds of salt, a big pot, please, don't regret it, I will hunt very hard and help you have a lot of children."
Chapter completed!